Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-28
THE CAMP IN DIXIE GULCH.
McClean's Contract ON the Montana
Central-350 Men to Go to Work
Next Observation-Disclosures Out.
fits at Work.

A visit was yesterday paid by a repr
sentative OF The MINER to the camp of A
Y. MCLEAN on the line of the Montana. Ce,
tral IN Dixie Gulch. There are two camn
OF Ten tents each for the use of the Ia
borers engaged on this end OF the line. q
well as canvas boarding houses and stable
ana a store supplied with all the necessarie
Tor the men, as also implements needed il
~excavating.
MR.. M'CLEAN's CONTRACT
extends from the lower end of Mai,
street, Butte, in the vicinity of th,
gas works up to the Park Canyon tunnel. /,
distance OF seven miles, and the term O
MS contract Tor the completion of this sec
tion extends to the end of December of tn,
present year. At present he finds no diff
Guilty in procuring an ADEQUATE
force OF men to put to work
~excavatiDg, but be fears that ar
the work progresses he will experience the
usual trouble in holding them. He antici.
pates employing a force of
$50 MEN AT ONCE
ii he can hold them together. The neces-
sary tools have not been brought to the
camp. especially those needed for rock
work, but he is daily expecting their ar
rival. The full force will be at work at the
beginning of next week. There is a great
deal of heavy work on this portion OF the
road, az the surface dirt is underlaid at a
depth OF five or six feet With some of the
hardest kind of rock. Five gangs of men
are now at work and they have
COMPLETED THE GRADING
OF ~three-quarters OF a mile. In his contract
there ls a short tunnel of $50 feet-short
as compared with other borings on this
road-which will run from Dixie Gulch to a
small adjoining gulch. A trestle one hun
dred feet high will also be erected across
Dixie Gulch. The wages paid men working
in open cuts is 1925 q day, and their
board costs them $685. a week, the con.
tractors finding the necessary places to
in, but the laborers nave to
FIND THEIR OWN BLANKETS.
MI: MCLEAN was very obliging, furnish
ing all the information in his power and
expressing his readiness to supply The
MINER with every item as to the progress
OF the road under his supervision. He is a
gentleman of wide experience in railroad
building, having hal a large contract on
the Canadian Pacific which he fulfilled in
class shape. There is q
FORCE OF THIRTY MEN
at work on the east approach to the Park
tunnel. Very rapid progress is
being made here and as many men are en-
on the west end. The right of way
s being cleared eastwards, brush is being
tut and trees felled. The presence of large
impedes progress greatly. About
men are employed by Winters &
.onahue at Woodville on the cut that
partly takes in the county road. They
HAVE A CAMP
;wo miles east of Woodville. The princi-
BAL industry Of Woodvillp, wood-cutting, |
las been very dull in the last six months,
md much difficulty is at present exper.
enced in getting men to cut timber, as
hey prefer the railroad work at $2.25 a |
lay 10 cutting wood at $1.5O a cord. The
Amy weather gave an additional setback
the business of the town, as neither tim
nor railroad men could earn
nough to pay their board.
There are a number OF wagons at Nc
;lean's camp occupied by women. The re-
hazarded a remark to the effect chat
hey were very Likely SOM of the Mormon
'utft that has been noticed at Dillon and
'ther points lately. going north. and was
in his opinion by a little girl
near by who heard him and said:
We is, mister"
Lumber is being placed on the groudd in
for a slaughter house which
& Co. intend erecting this side OF
soulder Canyon.
The road to Woodville is in good condi-
ion.